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This is not about politics per se. The Obama administration is significantly mealie-mouthed on Syria, a terrorist state that continues to thumb its nose at us and supplies deadly missiles to Hizbollah in Lebanon which will be fired at our one true ally in the Middle East . The Republicans have seen the enemy!

#2 An American.
Are you sure you're an American? Syria is a nasty, repressive dictatorship. They are an ally of Iran, supplying arms to Hezbollah, allowing Jihadi maniacs into Iraq to kill Americans & Iraqi civilians, they are responsible for the assassination of numerous Lebanese politicians. Why would anyone sane want to reward such a state by sending them an ambassador? Obama's legacy will be a major regional war, possibly involving nuclear weapons, most certainly involving chemical weapons - Syria just transferred Scud missiles to Hezbollah including some with chemical warheads. But, of course, Obama likes dictators & tyrants just like he manages to alienate every ally America has.

Where is Coburn's persuasive reasoning for his objection? Of yeah, I forgot: Coburn has objected to 108 Obama nominations (and still counting). This is, to me, treasonous behavior on the part of Republicans because it intentionally cripples and undermines the duly elected government of the Unites States. The Republicans admit as much: they claim their objective is to slow down government and gum up our governmental work if they can't outright control as a minority party. They don't respect the laws of our land and the results of democratic elections. Their stupid claim, dating back to the dense Reagan, is that "Government is not the solution; government is the problem." Such hostility toward one's own government is merely misguided thinking and feeling on an intellectual and emotional level, but when they act on those thoughts and feelings by trying to stop, stall, and disable our government, then they are traitors and should be treated as such. Republicans believe if a nominee is not to their political liking, they are justified in stopping the nomination and voting, but we have elections to decide such matters and Republicans lost. Each president should be able to staff his government with his own choices (as long as they are not criminal). Obama is wise in keeping his friends close and his enemies closer. Because he is open to honest talks, he has won over the many allies the arrogant, disrespectfully bossy Bush/Cheney alienated and Obama will win over new allies in his openness to frank dialogue with neutral or even antagonistic sovereigns, as well. Refusing to talk means we are making our minds up about others based on bad information, stupid demonizing stereotypes and is a sure-fire way to needless wars.

To Terry in Israel. you are talking like Israel is treating the Palestinians and the Lebanese any better. Israel is repressive and hostile towards the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and continues to violate Lebanese airspace almost every day.
The blocking of having an ambassador to Syria bodes well with Likud and Nentiyaho who is not committed to any peace with the Palestinians or the Syrians.
And the Scud missiles thing, man is that the latest joke that Israel has decided to come out with (in a series of Jokes including the Iraq's Yellow cake one) all while it continues Palestinian expulsion from their home lands and settlement expansion on occupied land in a clear violation of International Laws.
Obama is doing the right thing, I don't want a US president rubber stamping everything Israel does. It's about time someone stood up and challenged what Likud and AIPAC are doing. (and In case Yes I'm an American)

An American.
What a bunch of looney-leftist propaganda you spout, you don't have the vaguest idea of what reality is - anyway, elections for Congress will make Obama a lame-duck when Dems lose control of both Houses to restore some sanity to American policy, & soon enough, goodby Obama. The vast majority of Americans support Israel - they know who the real enemy is, Islam & looney-leftists.

Arik, you speak of appeasement. We definietly must not appease Israel the way Chamberlain appeased Hitler at Munich in 1938.
For racist reasons, Hitler thought the Sedetenland was rightfully Germany's. Similarly, for racist reasons, Netanyahu thinks Arab East Jerusalem is Israel's when under international law it is illegally occupied by Israel. Israel had no more right to "annex" occupied Arab East Jerusalem than Hitler had a right to "annex" the Czech Sedetenland. We must not appease Israel's expansion of Jew-only apartheid settlements in occupied Palestine. And we must not let the Israel-Firsters lie us into another unnecessary war.

Arik, and I suppose the Syrian Golan Heights is also Israeli, and the Lebanese Shabaa Farms is also Israeli, and the Palestinian West Bank is also Israeli? How convenient for you to deny the concept of occupation altogether.

An interesting theory explaining why Barack Obama does not release his birth certificate says it is not because it would destroy his natural born citizen status, but because the document shows his father was an Arab Muslim.
The theory, best explained recently by blogger Hillbuzz, says that Obama’s birth certificate would list his father as “Arab” and not “Black.”
“Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was only 1/4 black, and identified himself as a Kenyan Arab,” writes Hillbuzz. “According to how the British would have recorded him in their documents back then, BHO Sr. would have been ‘Arab’.”
The theory continues that when many states issued birth certificates in 1961, the year Obama was born, the religion of the parents would be recorded. While Obama himself contends he is a Christian, having attended the controversial Trinity Baptist Church in Chicago for nearly 20 years, his father was a Muslim, as verified by liberal-American media outlet MSNBC.
Obama’s Indonesian stepfather was also a Muslim.
The theory explains that hard evidence of Obama’s father being a Muslim Arab would then have led many to conclude that Obama himself was one as well, even though his mother was a White Irish Catholic.
This in turn would have alienated the Jewish vote, a significant block that got Obama elected in 2008, as well as igniting Christian-conservatives into doing everything they could to make sure he was not elected.
The theory also goes on to explain that the Obama birth certificate will not be released because it would destroy his chances for re-election in 2012.

Tell the Arab propaganda: Arabs have lost these territories because of extermination wars they started. They must pay a price.
True peace lovers cannot accept to reward warmongering Arabs because it will make them believe that perpetual war is the right option since they can get back what they lost on the battlefield.

Arik: (Could you be Arik Sharon Butcher of Lebanon? I thought he was stll in a coma.) Israel started the land-grab war of 1967 and immediately occupied and annexed Arab East Jerusalem. How obvious was that. France was mad at Israel and ended their alliance.

A Goatlover, cut your victimist propaganda and your historic fantasies.
They are as funny as the last Lebanese move: they filled a complaint with the Security Council claiming that Israel stole them goats. I suppose that some fake poor broken heart Lebanese singles will ask for reparations.
But we know the truth, these goats fled in Israel because of sexual harassement.
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